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Newspaper
The Daily Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1908
Page
9
Last week’s puzzle results and call for entries appear in this Telegram style page. Winners will be announced next Monday and prizes include separate girl and boy awards plus surprises. Names listed include Lawson, Talkington, Garrett, Clemin, Smith, Hopkins and others with addresses.
A cryptic puzzle lists tasks to remove heads from words to reveal new meanings. It hides a proverb and asks to be solved by beheading terms like fragrance beauty and kitchen utensil, celestial body and cow cry, plus a market place and a man who works in stone.
Pauline Rogers befriends a quiet stranger who pays in advance for board. The old man, nicknamed the Old Man, stays through summer and reads to Pauline, while Grace Van Horn and Mrs Rogers face social gossip and financial strain from his presence.
In a crowded pew Grace Van Horn and Pauline encounter a cousinly figure as they discuss a man’s memory and a mantelpiece relic. The scene shifts to downtown where Pauline assists an old man and Grace is photographed posing on the street.
Pauline learns her supposed destitute benefactor is actually her grandfather's brother, rich and generous. He confesses his disguise to test Pauline and her mother, praising their kindness and vowing to join the community for the remainder of their days.
Ned anxiously watches his baby sister as she is being laid to sleep by a nurse. The child nears unconsciousness and Ned pleads softly while the nurse hums a lullaby. Ned suddenly warns that singing further could harm the infant.
A whimsical tale recalls Thomag Cat in a valley with no end and Tom’s dexpatr as people shout Bentt. In that alley a youngster and Jim Inglets appear while Tom chases, and the scene ends with Tom owning the alley.
The poem fragment follows Billy Johnson courting Miss Sally Brown in a small town. He woos Sally with gifts like a cake and moonryes, but she rejects him, and he vows to try again with other girls.
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